Great Tang Southern Emperor

In addition to domestic affairs, news from abroad has also come in, and it is also good news-Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenguan really did their tricks. He came up with the strategy of closing the door and beating the dog.So on a certain appointed day, the two armies went to a remote place to train at the same time.As expected, Dashi and Turkic were fooled, and each sent [-] troops into the territory of Datang to test it out. In the end, Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenguan united with the army behind to make dumplings.In the face of powerful thermal weapons, the enemy's [-] troops have no resistance at all, and they are easily eaten.

Seeing that Tang was ready, Da Shi and Xi Turk were startled. They ignored the [-] troops trapped in the siege, and immediately led the rest of the army to flee.Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenguan didn't pursue the enemy so well.

It's not that they don't want to eat more enemies, it's that they have more than enough energy.You must know that whether it is Dashi or Western Turkic, the troops sent this time are all elite cavalry, with super raid capabilities.As border guards, the two armies of Li Jingxuan and Zhang Wenguan are mainly defensive in nature, but the [-] troops in their hands are mainly infantry, and they can't catch up at all.But when the cavalry from the rear came up, the enemy had already run away. The two of them could only sigh in dismay, and they withdrew their troops unwillingly.

But the Tang Dynasty did not let them go. In the spring of the second year, that is, 650 AD, the first year of Zhengwu in the Tang Dynasty, Li Zhen immediately brought up the old story after stabilizing the domestic situation. With Su Dingfang as the general, he sent 30 troops to the west Turks.At that time, the Western Turkic Yipishekui Khan was in power. When he learned that the Tang Dynasty was invading, he immediately mobilized millions of troops to meet him. However, at this time, the Tang Dynasty had already equipped a large number of machine guns and a large-scale mobile cavalry. In the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks had no chance of winning - the Western Turkic army of one million had not yet rushed to the Datang's position, they were stunned by the dense rain of bullets, and quickly retreated, but they could not escape the pursuit of the Datang cavalry. In the end, all the millions of troops were buried in the vast land of the Western Regions.

The battle started quickly and ended quickly, but in less than half a month, Muyang City (the capital of the Western Turks) was breached, and there were only [-] elite escorts left by Yibi Shekui Khan, who planned to flee westward to the Great Wall. Shi, but was betrayed and beheaded by his cronies on the way, and his head was placed in front of Su Ding's phalanx. At this point, the Western Turks perished, and the countries in the Western Regions were terrified, and they sent envoys to the court one after another.

In the autumn of the first year of Zhengwu, less than half a year after the Western Turks were wiped out, Dashi sent 60 troops to attack Tianzhu again. The Tianzhu Protectorate Dadu Hufang Yiai rose up to meet the enemy, and the two sides fought a decisive battle on the border. , In the end, the Dashi was defeated, and Fang Yiai took advantage of the victory to pursue and entered the Dashi.And Dashi immediately sent 40 troops to support the border.In Datang, Li Zhen also sent Xue Rengui as the commander, leading a total of 30 troops and 20 soldiers and 50 of Fang Yiai to fight against Dashi. So far, the most famous and largest Tang Mie Da in the history of Datang The food war kicks off.

The difficulty of this battle was beyond the expectations of Li Zhen and Wenwu of the Manchu Dynasty. According to the calculations of Li Zhen and Wenwu of the Manchu Dynasty, even if Dashi was stronger than the Western Turks, it was only a little stronger. Weapons shouldn't last long.

However, the facts gave Li Zhen a slap in the face. Dashi unexpectedly obtained Datang's cement and gunpowder formula from some sources, and also developed cement and simple thermal weapons. At the junction of Tang and Dashi A large number of fortifications were built.Although the quality of these fortifications is not as good as Datang's, they can be regarded as having the strength to wrestle with Datang. At least there is no problem in fighting back and forth. They suffered a lot in front of the fortifications, and thousands of soldiers died because of these fortifications alone.

Li Zhen was furious when she heard the news, and conducted a thorough investigation of the empire. It turned out that the Tang Empire was like a sieve, and there were people who were bribed by the enemy country or simply inserted into the Tang Dynasty by the enemy country. Spies, the highest position has even reached the high position of Dasinong. This position is no worse than the six ministers. If it is higher, it is the prime minister. It is unknown how much information has been leaked to the enemy country these years.

This discovery made Li Zhen almost faint from anger, and Li Shimin, who had already abdicated, was so angry that he almost fell ill and almost failed to be rescued.Li Zhen didn't show mercy this time, and directly killed all the traitors by means of thunder. All the nine ethnic groups were expelled from the country and clan, and expelled from the territory of the Tang Dynasty. Before anyone could leave the border of the Tang Dynasty, they were torn to pieces by the families of the soldiers who died in battle.

It's just that although Li Zhen has dealt with the moths in the country, it doesn't seem to help the current war situation. After all, Dashi has already obtained the formula of cement and gunpowder. They can produce more cement continuously if they want to And gunpowder, bringing countless casualties to the advance of Datang's army.

Under such circumstances, Li Zhen had no choice but to use her own trump card - a super special army selected from the youth army, the best of the best, called the Spike Special Forces.The number of Spike Special Forces is small, only 300 people, but if used properly, the role of these 300 people is even more important than that of [-] young soldiers.

The Boys' Army is the elite of the world, and the Spike Special Forces is selected from thousands of miles away from the Boys' Army. Each of them is the best of the best, the trump card of the trump card, and is especially good at special operations. If they really want to However, even Li Zhen's guards may not be their opponents, they may sneak in and capture Li Zhen alive.

Chapter 231 The Road to Conquest: The Spike Special Forces

Chapter 231 The Road to Conquest: The Spike Special Forces

Originally, this ace team was used by Li Zhen to deal with Li Zhi, and it was also the specific executor of his plan to peacefully take over Chang'an City. The Special Forces, which should have become famous at that time, could only continue to hide their figure, and only now did they show their edge.

After receiving Li Zhen's order, the Spike Special Forces, which had been hiding in the Qinling Mountains for training, set off immediately, and infiltrated into the territory of Dashi through various methods according to their respective missions.

Then the Great Food Empire suffered, either an explosion at the gunpowder factory, or a mass poisoning incident among the craftsmen at the cement factory, or an attack on the food transport team, and the food and grass were burned and so on.There is even a daring special operations team who actually came up with the idea of ​​the commander-in-chief of the Great Tang Battle, and after lurking for half a month, seized the fleeting opportunity and shot a sniper bullet into the ground. It touched the chest of Commander Dashi.

Xue Rengui, the commander of the Tang Army who got the news here, also immediately swung his troops to attack. At this time, the rear of Dashi was in chaos, and people inside the fortifications were panicked.It has been more than half a month, not only the weapons and supplies have not been delivered, but even the food is about to run out. In addition to the assassination of the commander, the morale of the Dashi army has plummeted. If it is not supported by a firm religious belief, I am afraid They have already collapsed.

But religious belief can keep people's morale, but they can't transform morale into combat power. After all, they can't even eat enough, and they don't have the strength to pick up weapons. What's the use of morale?Facing the wolves and tigers of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, the nearly 90 Dashi army could no longer resist and quickly collapsed.

But I have to say that religious brainwashing is indeed terrible. Although it is not the opponent of Datang, none of the 90 enemies surrendered, let alone escaped. Instead, they hold the idea of ​​dragging you to hell even if they die. Many Everyone died with the Tang army.So much so that although Datang finally won the border war and wiped out the enemy's 90 troops, it also lost nearly [-] troops, which can be described as quite heavy losses.

The war between Tang and Dashi did not become much easier with the breach of the border. It was not until this time that the monarchs of Datang realized that Dashi was really difficult to fight. Because of religion, this country was almost It can be said that all the people are soldiers. Originally, the Tang Dynasty followed the military discipline of not harassing the people, but when the Tang army suffered more than a dozen attacks and lost hundreds of people, Li Zhen immediately changed this military regulation, and began to be brutal. genocidal policy.

Of course, the genocide here is not really about killing everyone, but just like the Nanyang Peninsula, arresting all local religious believers and sending them back to the country to be sold as slaves by Li Yusi.After two months of arrests like this, the attack became much better, but the policy that had been issued was not retracted because the situation improved, and everyone selectively ignored this, and the slave policy continued to be implemented.

So much so that wherever the Tang army went, the local people could be described as wolves and dolphins. Almost before the Tang army arrived, the local people would flee completely. The Tang army actually has no source of food and grass, and can only get a little supplement when it hits a big city.Fortunately, the army led by Xue Rengui walked along the coastline, not far from the sea. Datang's fleet could be said to be on call at any time, and the supplies of food and grass were not too short.

In addition, the Spike Special Forces wreaked havoc in the rear, not only blowing up the gunpowder factory and destroying the cement factory, but later the crazy Spike Special Forces also became bigger and bigger, sneaking into the city to assassinate the city lord, burning food and grass, making Panic and other methods emerged in an endless stream, which made the rear of the Dashi a mess, and also provided a lot of convenience for the Great Tang army to capture the city.

In this way, the battle between Datang and Dashi not only achieved the prestige of Datang, expanded the prestige of Datang from East Asia to the Mediterranean, but also made the Spike Special Forces widely known to the world. The Boys Army left, and the Spike Special Forces became the new number one in the world.

And the Spike Special Forces did not live up to this name. In the next six months, they wreaked havoc behind Dashi. They escaped Dashi's several encirclement campaigns and responded with even more crazy revenge.

Even the invasion of Mecca by the Tang army was due to the credit of the special forces. If they hadn't blown up the largest arsenal in Mecca in advance, wreaked havoc in the city, and frantically assassinated the nobles of the Dashi Empire, leading to the destruction of the city. If the people are in panic, otherwise, facing Mecca, which is high in the city and deep in the pond, with the help of hot weapons, it is impossible for the Tang army to take it down so easily.

You must know that Mecca City is the capital of the Great Food Empire. Although the scale is not as large as that of the Tang Dynasty, it is also a reinforced concrete structure, and it is the last retreat of the Great Food Empire. It can be said that this is a very difficult bone. There is the Spike Special Forces, otherwise Datang must at least prepare for the loss of more than 10 people, instead of only a few thousand people as it is now, and the dead are all members of the Foreign Legion, the people of Datang The loss was not great.

In the spring of the second year of Zhengwu in the Tang Dynasty, all the kingdoms of the Dashi Empire were captured by the Tang army. Osman, the third caliph of the Dashi Empire (except Mohammed), lit a fire and his family and the palace were buried in the fire. The Dashi Empire declared its demise.Ninety-nine percent of the nobles in the city surrendered at the feet of Datang's army, begging for forgiveness from Datang, but for Datang, their surrender came too late, so Xue Rengui didn't care about their begging. Ignore it, but according to the rules, all the captured nobles were demoted to slaves.

However, the people who had no escape were quite strong, and more than half of them launched a desperate charge against the Tang army.You must know that Mecca at this time has a population of nearly 200 million due to the expulsion of the Tang army. This number is more than the number of people in Chang'an City at this time, and half of the population is at least 80 million.

It's just that how could these unarmed people be the opponents of the Tang army armed to the teeth?According to the new military regulations, all those who are hostile to Datang are enemies of Datang. There is only one place for such people to go, and that is the slave camp of Li Yusi. Work, until death does not end...

Chapter 232 The Road to Conquest: Crossing Suez

Chapter 232 The Road to Conquest: Crossing Suez

The remaining half of the people finally recognized the reality after seeing the tragic situation of their compatriots, but they were still unwilling to be obedient citizens of Datang, a religious desert country, so their compatriots were arrested by Datang. When they were arrested, they took advantage of the chaos and escaped from Mecca, but until this time, they looked around and found that they had nowhere to go.

The Tang Dynasty in the east is the territory of Buddhism and Taoism, and they have hatred against them to destroy the country. Of course they are not willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty. It is even more difficult to deal with them by nature, and it is absolutely impossible to accept them-so they find that they have no escape at all.

In the end, these people were divided into three parts. One part explored north, and finally combined with the Slavs who went south, becoming a new race; the other part chose to wander south and came to the sea, and slowly became pirates who dominated the Persian Gulf. , across the entire West Indian Ocean; the third part crosses the Isthmus of Suez to Egypt on the African continent. This is the last enclave of the Great Food Empire. It will take a while for Datang to reach here, and they still have a few days You can live a good life.

But whether it is pirates, new races or Egyptian remnants, these will eventually be wiped out by Datang, but at this time, after half a year of continuous fighting, Datang is exhausted and ready to recuperate for a while, so he ignores them for the time being.It is conceivable that once Datang recovers, these people will eventually become prisoners of Datang. As for whether they will be slaves or not, it depends on their own attitude.

However, although Datang has temporarily stopped, it does not mean that Datang is really planning to stop for the time being. Don't forget that after a year of fighting, almost all the credits have been taken away by the army. The other pillar of the army, the already grown Datang Navy, accompanied the whole journey. In these two wars, the navy's greater role was to act as the army's material transport team, transporting food, grass and weapons for the army, not to mention meritorious service Well, they didn't even participate in the war a few times, and the elite marines became a logistics transportation team, and they didn't even fight a decent battle, which made them aggrieved.

The only chance for the navy to fight was when the Dashi Fleet took the initiative to attack and wanted to cut off the supply line of the Datang army from the sea.However, since the Dashi Navy was wiped out by the entire army in the First World War of the Tang Dynasty a few years ago, although it has worked hard to develop in the past few years, it still has not regained its vitality. There are only three or two big cats and kittens.

Facing the escort warships of Datang, they had no fighting power at all. Before they even rushed to the fleet of Datang, they were already blown to pieces by the violent cannon fodder—and this was the only naval force in the entire war. Participated in a fishing credit.It’s just such a little credit, it’s better to have nothing. Compared with the huge navy, they can’t even fill the gaps between their teeth. Seeing that the army is full of fat, they can’t even drink a mouthful of leftover soup. It would be weird to balance it out.

So although the land battlefield has calmed down, the sea battlefield has just begun—the fearless guys in the navy unexpectedly raided the Byzantine Empire.

Of course, the Byzantine Empire had begun to decline at this time, and most of the large lands and mountains conquered by Heraclius had been lost. In particular, all the territory within the Red Sea had been captured by the Prophet Muhammad and the Great Food Empire led by him. Today's Byzantine Empire is only left on the Mediterranean coast - today's Turkey and Algeria in the south are still under their control, and the rest of the place has already been captured by big cannibals (such as the Somalia area, which was lost at this time. In addition, they had to defend against the Great Food Empire sweeping the world, and at the same time guard against the Slavs going south. In the case of a two-front war, the national power was greatly depleted, and it was far worse than before.

It’s just that the Byzantine Empire, which lost the land around the Red Sea, also prevented the Datang Empire’s navy from directly threatening the Byzantine Empire. In addition, the Suez Canal had not been dug through at this time, so the Datang’s navy wanted to directly open the warship. There is only one way to go to the coast of the Byzantine Empire, and that is to go south to Africa, pass the Cape of Good Hope and go north, and enter the Mediterranean through the Strait of Gibraltar.

Of course the navy would not do this, it would take too much time and energy, but fortunately they also have their own marines, although not as good as the army in terms of quantity, but much better in quality than the army, [-] marines are almost comparable to two Wan Da Tang's army is gone, of course, it's fine if you run into the sixteen guards, everyone is evenly matched, at most they will fight one to one.

But no matter what, the navy has spent a lot of money for this big war. In order to cross the Isthmus of Suez, it spared no expense to research and develop a kind of assembled warship. The quality of this kind of warship is not good. It is useless, and because the strength is not high, it cannot support too large naval guns, so it can be said that there are many shortcomings.

However, although this kind of assembled warship has many disadvantages, it cannot conceal its advantages. Just like the name of this warship, this thing can be disassembled, and it is very convenient. A team of ten people only needs to With proficient hands and sincere cooperation, one can be assembled in one day, and another advantage of this ship is that it can carry more than 100 people. Although it is not as good as a large transport ship, it is in This time is already the best choice.

This time, the navy took Byzantium by relying on this kind of assembled warship. First, they dispatched the marines, successfully landed from the Isthmus of Suez, and came to the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Another warship, and finally people and supplies came to Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on such a warship.

Needless to say the next thing, the Byzantine Empire never thought that the Tang Empire, which had just wiped out the Great Food, would choose to immediately go to war with itself. When they saw the Great Tang warships, they were quite confused. Also quite frightening.You must know that in order to guard against Datang, they have already transferred [-]% of their troops to the border between Byzantium and Datang (that is, the border between them and the Dashi Empire in the past), and the remaining [-]% will also have [-]% in the north. Only [-]% of the Slavs who went south (the Slavs went south during this period) were scattered all over the country to suppress rebellions in various places.

Chapter 233 The Road to Conquest: The Destruction of Byzantium

Chapter 233 The Road to Conquest: The Destruction of Byzantium

It can be said that the situation facing the Byzantine Empire today is even worse than in history. After all, there is no such thing as the Tang army’s westward expedition in history. They can almost be said to be fighting on the third front at this time, especially when facing the Great Tang. , and gathered [-]% of the troops on the front line.But where did they expect that the navy of the Tang Empire would appear behind them?So when the imperial navy flying the Dragon Flag of the Tang Dynasty appeared on the sea outside Constantinople, the whole Constantinople exploded.

At this time, the Byzantine Empire was unprecedentedly weak, and there were not even enough soldiers to defend the city in Constantinople. How could it be the opponent of the Datang Marine Corps?In particular, although the Marine Corps did not bring in a warship, it also brought in a large number of land warfare artillery through assembled warships. Facing the artillery attack of the Tang Dynasty, how could Constantinople be an opponent?

Even though Constantinople was actually reinforced with cement-like materials (it is said that the earliest cement appeared in the Roman Empire), but there were not enough soldiers in the city to withstand the Tang Dynasty's soldiers. The range is severely lacking.As a result, they could only watch helplessly as the city walls continued to collapse, letting the cannons of the Tang Dynasty unleash their might, but there was nothing they could do.

After ten rounds of bombardment, with a loud bang, a gap in the wall of the city, which the Byzantine Empire claimed to be the strongest and most dangerous in the world, collapsed, and then Datang continued to expand on this gap, and finally formed a large enough The huge crack that allowed more than a dozen people to enter side by side, the Marine Corps, who had already been impatient, immediately rushed forward and rushed into this ancient city.

The nobles in the city saw that the situation was not good, and those who could escape had already fled, and those who could not escape immediately knelt on the side of the road and surrendered. The residents in the city did not have the courage like the people of the Dashi Empire. Curious onlookers, there is no shame in the destruction of the country at all.

As for the Byzantine Emperor Constans II (the fourth emperor of the Byzantine Empire and the grandson of Heraclius the Great), he was not as decisive as Caliph Osman of the Great Food Empire. Immediately ordered all the soldiers in the city to put down their weapons and surrender, and he even took his wife and daughter, walked out of the palace with his hands bound (I don’t know where he got this allusion), and surrendered to Datang—— In the entire empire, there is not a single person with backbone. It can be seen that this empire has really been decayed to the extreme. Such an empire can still survive for more than 800 years in history (it was not until the [-]th century that the Byzantine Empire was destroyed by the Ottoman Empire). It was nothing short of a miracle.

In any case, the fall of the Byzantine Empire has become a fact, and the absence of resistance also means that Datang's own losses are also very small, which is a good thing.

However, it is not accurate to say that there are no rebels. When the Tang army entered the city at the beginning, no one resisted, but later, some people still expressed dissatisfaction with the invasion of Datang, especially when the marines tried to When we took control of Hagia Sophia (the largest church in the Byzantine Empire, almost all emperors were crowned here, it was later destroyed by war in the sixth century, and we rebuilt it here), we encountered strong resistance— — A group of heavily armored cavalry (of course, also called Bright Knights) who packed themselves into tin cans rushed out shouting 'Demacia', and actually caused quite a mess for the marines.Fortunately, the commander behind reacted in time and ordered all the marines to shoot...

Facts have proved that faith does not make people invulnerable, and heavy armor like iron cans can't resist pure copper bullets. In the dense gunshots like popping beans, dozens of light knights quickly became real motionless. Tin cans.